06-07-2009, 03:24 AM
<b>MLA's want Varun to lead in UP</b>
A revolt-like situation is building up in the Uttar Pradesh unit of the BJP with party MLAs now categorically demanding that leadership of the state be handed over to Varun Gandhi.
A meeting of the BJP Legislature Party that began late on Friday evening and continued for almost five hours, saw party legislators in an extremely agitated mood.
"Time has come for the senior leaders in the party to restrict themselves to giving advice and blessings and leave the running of the party to younger leaders," the MLAs said in unison.
The mood at the party meeting was so aggressive, according to sources, that a senior RSS leader left midway in a huff while state BJP president Ramapati Ram Tripathi had no option but to nod his head in agreement all through.
The legislators said that the party had suffered maximum loss due to the dilution of the partyâs ideology.
"Those who are now criticising Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi for the reverses in the elections should be asked to re-examine their own base among the masses. We suffered in UP because the party did not support Varun Gandhi strongly enough and dissenting voices within the party only added to the confusion. We have forgotten our base and should return to the Hindutva line. Those who cannot accept this, should be asked to leave," said one of the younger legislators.
The MLAs said that criticism of Mr Gandhiâs statement by a section of the BJP leaders had actually damaged the party in the elections. They asked the party leadership to stop oscillating between Hindutva and the "so-called secularism" and chose the original party line.
http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftn...un-to-lead.aspx
A revolt-like situation is building up in the Uttar Pradesh unit of the BJP with party MLAs now categorically demanding that leadership of the state be handed over to Varun Gandhi.
A meeting of the BJP Legislature Party that began late on Friday evening and continued for almost five hours, saw party legislators in an extremely agitated mood.
"Time has come for the senior leaders in the party to restrict themselves to giving advice and blessings and leave the running of the party to younger leaders," the MLAs said in unison.
The mood at the party meeting was so aggressive, according to sources, that a senior RSS leader left midway in a huff while state BJP president Ramapati Ram Tripathi had no option but to nod his head in agreement all through.
The legislators said that the party had suffered maximum loss due to the dilution of the partyâs ideology.
"Those who are now criticising Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi for the reverses in the elections should be asked to re-examine their own base among the masses. We suffered in UP because the party did not support Varun Gandhi strongly enough and dissenting voices within the party only added to the confusion. We have forgotten our base and should return to the Hindutva line. Those who cannot accept this, should be asked to leave," said one of the younger legislators.
The MLAs said that criticism of Mr Gandhiâs statement by a section of the BJP leaders had actually damaged the party in the elections. They asked the party leadership to stop oscillating between Hindutva and the "so-called secularism" and chose the original party line.
http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftn...un-to-lead.aspx